What RCT's Reports Tab Actually Tells You About Your Spending
RCT’s reports tab turns your scanned receipts into category trends, store comparisons, and a running total of discounts and deposits, all built from the individual items you’ve logged rather than one combined spending number.
A single “you spent €1,240 this month” figure doesn’t tell you much you can act on. RCT’s reports work off item-level data instead, so what comes back is specific enough to actually change something.
Category trends, month over month
Because every item is categorized, RCT can track a category’s spending against last month and flag it when it moves. If your “eating out” category jumps by more than 20%, you’ll see it called out directly rather than having to notice it yourself buried in a total.
Store comparisons
If you shop at more than one supermarket, RCT compares your average spend per visit across them, using your actual receipt history rather than a generic price index. Seeing that one store averages noticeably more per visit than another is the kind of thing that’s easy to feel but hard to prove without the numbers.
Discounts and deposits, tracked separately
Because discounts and deposits are attached to the items they belong to instead of floating as unlabeled lines, RCT can total them up on their own. You can see how much you’ve saved from discounts as a percentage of your total spending, which category gives you the best discounts most often, and how much you’ve built up in bottle deposits, a nudge to actually return them instead of leaving that money sitting in a crate.
Lifetime totals
Reports also track cumulative spending over the full time you’ve used RCT, with milestones at round numbers like €1,000, €5,000, or €10,000 tracked. It’s less about the milestone itself and more about seeing, in one place, how much financial history you’ve actually built up by scanning consistently.